OPENING DAY /BEAR SEASON IN EASTERN NC

[wollybear]

great job!  :cool:        

[Longbowwally]

Nice Bear Don! I bet a treeshark would have opened him up pretty good......

[John Dill]

Wally

I think Don was using Rage Mechanical broadheads.........Naw just a kidden. He poked that bear with an ole Magnus. With 59 pounds of welch fury!  :D

[flinthead]

Don , Congrats from all the Trad gang from Roanoke Va. Look forward to ATAR again in 2008. Good shooting.Roy

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats  

[Tom Anderson]

Don,
Please tell us more about how you hunt bears here in eastern N.C..  Since we can't bait, how in the world do you do it?  I hunted the Croatan area for several years and the only bears I ever saw were a couple we pushed out with dogs or the ones grazing in the cornfield in the Sanctuary area about 1/2 mi. from legal land.
How's it done?

[Don Batten]

Hey Tom. 1st let me say I don't claim to be a bear expert at all. This was the first bear i've shot with my bow. I killed one with a gun a few years ago. I live in an area that is loaded with bear. I bet I've seen 25 since last may. not on stand, but just driving to and from work. On my way to the  Hickory shoot this year I saw a monster 2miles up the road from where I live. He was in the ditch trying to cross the road and I thought it was one of my friends cows out. I slowed down and stopped with him right there. trying to get my camera out and he wheeled back in the pines. when I drove off, I looked in my rearview and he was in the road. This Bear had no legs, which means to me he would go over 500 easy. The creek that runs behind my house flows into the Trent river and that into the neuse. On a hard, or few days south west wind the water blows out into the Pamlico sound. the creek gets real low and I've seen tracks and scat where they will feed on sunken acorns which now are not sunken. This bear came right down the creek bank feeding along and lucky or not, he made himself stop about 8 yards from me. No magic, and I may never shoot another, but I will be back in that swamp again next year for sure. I know a guy who has shot a couple by seeing them on long plulp wood roads and stalking them. give me a call if you got any more questions. good luck. Don

[Don Batten]

One more quick thing. If you can find a bunch of what I call bay bushes. They will feed on the berries and you can tell they have been there because they will break the limbs down just like the lightning has hit them. Also as my Dad always told me when he was catching fish and I wasn't , You gotta hold your mouth right. LOL.

[John Dill]

Tom

Keep at them bear's you will get a chance.

[Tom Anderson]

Thanks for the info., Don.

John,
It's been a long time since I stomped in the Croatan.  I actually gave up hunting there because I never saw a darn thing - except with dogs.  And I surely did my share of walking in the deep woods, too.
I spent most of my time around Great Lake and the area known as the "rice ground".

[Killdeer]

Don, I see that the quiver hood's stitching is largely decorative, as there is a rubber band holding it together. Is the rubber band standard factory equipment, or is that an aftermarket item?
   

Nice bear, too!      :D

[John Dill]

Killie

If you want a Kanati Bow quiver.....all you got to do is ask(LOL)  :p    :D

[John Dill]

[Don Batten]

Yes Killie, I ran out of plastic wire ties and had to use a rubber band in a pinch. Got to call Linny Rock and get another supply. Don

[Killdeer]

..and ask, and ask, and beg...   :D        

[John Dill]

Killie
What color? What model?....

Don

I think Lennys down near your place with the mint jelly.....

[Don Batten]

John, I hope he brought some Oreo's to spread it on. LOL. worked on your hide another 3 hrs today. You might have been better off to get It done commercialy. DB